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BackupMyBlog: Back up your, uh, blog

BackupMyBlogBackupMyBlog. Is more of a description really necessary? Okay, okay... BackupMyBlog is a script and web service that will back up any MySQL-based blog like WordPress and Movable Type. It works like this: You register for BackupMyBlog and copy a provided PHP script to your web server (or let BackupMyBlog do it for you). Then the BackupMyBlog server uses that script to query your blog's database and backup your entries every day. Your database username and password are never transmitted (they are stored only on your server) and "each backup is secured by a large session key that the client uses to ensure that it is talking only to the BackupMyBlog backup servers," so it seems secure enough for your average blog. BackupMyBlog offers each user 10MB of storage, and backups are compressed which makes for an average of 30 to 50 days worth of backups (though I should point out that a manual backup I made of my old 2,500-post blog awhile back is about 2.5MB compressed, so unless BackupMyBlog's zip-fu is a lot stronger than mine, YMMV). BackupMyBlog is currently in beta and free to use--no word on whether that will change when it's out of beta.

[Via Lifehacker]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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